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Amazon Web Services Announces Rapid Growth in the Public Sector – More Than 300 Government Agencies and 1,500 Education Institutions Now Using AWS

The National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, European Space Agency, NASA, Recovery.gov, State of
Washington, Douglas County (NE), Multnomah County (OR), Harvard, MIT,
University of California – Berkeley, University of San Francisco,
University of Washington, and University of Oxford among the public
sector organizations leveraging AWS to save money, drive research and
development, and increase innovation globally

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2012--
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN),
today announced at the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC that
more than 300 government agencies and 1,500 education institutions are
leveraging AWS for a wide range of uses including big data analytics,
high performance computing, web and collaboration applications,
archiving and storage, and disaster relief. AWS also announced today new
services and features available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region (AWS
GovCloud), including the addition of high performance computing
capabilities. AWS GovCloud is a US-persons AWS region designed to allow
US government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads
into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance
requirements, such as ITAR. To learn more about how public sector
agencies are using AWS and the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, visit http://aws.amazon.com/publicsector/.

“Government agencies and education institutions are rapidly accelerating
their adoption of the AWS Cloud as organizations worldwide realize that
they can be more innovative, agile and efficient by using the cloud for
their technology infrastructure,” said Teresa Carlson, Vice President of
Worldwide Public Sector, AWS. “In addition, with initiatives such as the
US Federal Cloud First mandate and the European Cloud Partnership,
organizations are looking for ways to quickly move new and existing
business and mission workloads to the cloud in a secure, compliant and
cost-effective manner. With the new services and features added today in
AWS GovCloud, public sector customers now have greater capabilities to
rapidly design, build and deploy high performance applications with
AWS’s scalable, secure, low-cost platform.”

Government agency adoption

Government agencies worldwide including federal, state and local
governments are leveraging AWS to improve efficiencies, stay agile to
the needs of citizens, and to meet mandates for data center
consolidation and cost cutting. Hundreds of agencies are leveraging AWS
today, including The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The US Recovery and Accountability
Board, The US Department of the Treasury, US Department of State, US
Department of Agriculture, The European Space Agency, NASA, State of
Washington, Douglas County (NE) and Multnomah County (OR).

CDC BioSense 2.0 is a public health monitoring service running in AWS
GovCloud at the FISMA Moderate level that collects data from over 2,000
health facilities to help health officials respond to diseases quickly,
identify trends, and save lives. "BioSense is the first Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) program hosted completely in the cloud,
in alignment with the White House cloud initiative. Implementation of
BioSense and public health surveillance practice in AWS GovCloud
resulted in significant savings in overhead costs to CDC and state and
local health jurisdictions. In turn, these savings can be used to
support the creation of additional jobs at all levels for increased
public health disease surveillance,” said Taha Kass-Hout, Director,
Division of Informatics Solutions and Operations at Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).

Aquilent has been working with AWS to provide solutions on top of AWS
for government customers. “AWS GovCloud has been instrumental to
Aquilent because it fills a void for our customers in federal cloud
computing who are having to do more with less,” said Mark Pietrasanta,
CTO, Aquilent. “AWS GovCloud meets the regulatory requirements of our
federal customers, enabling Aquilent to more effectively move them into
the cloud where they benefit from AWS’s vast experience and past
performance from the AWS commercial regions.”

Education institutions such as public and private universities,
community colleges and K-12 schools and districts are quickly moving to
the cloud so educators and researchers can advance classroom curriculum,
teaching methods and research without the limitation of funding
expensive hardware. Today, more than 1,500 education institutions such
as MIT, Harvard, Georgetown University, New York University, California
Institute of Technology, University of California – Berkeley, University
of San Francisco, University of Maryland, Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities, University of Washington, University of Oxford, and the
University of Melbourne are leveraging AWS. Additionally, AWS has
supported grants of over $4 million to 350 universities in 35 countries
through its education grants program, which allows educators, students
and researchers to apply for AWS service credits to support their
classroom projects.

The M.S. in Analytics at the University of San Francisco provides
students with the skills necessary to develop techniques and processes
for data-driven decision-making. “We've integrated AWS into the
curriculum for our Masters in Analytics program so we can give students
real-world experience computing and analyzing large quantities of data,”
said Terence Parr, Director of the Analytics Graduate Program,
University of San Francisco. “The majority of students are used to
running simulated analytics on their laptops, but that's not the way
it's done in business today. By using AWS, each student gains access to
the compute resources they need to solve large-scale problems just as
they would in their future careers, without our organization having to
spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on supercomputer-strength
hardware.”

“Berkeley AMP Lab is a five-year collaborative effort at UC Berkeley,
involving students, researchers and faculty from a wide swath of
computer science and data-intensive application domains to address the
Big Data analytics problem. We started using AWS because we knew it
would completely change the way we could approach our research by
enabling us to access scalable and affordable computing in a moment’s
notice,” said Mike Franklin, Director, UC Berkeley AMP Lab. “At
Berkeley'sAMP Lab, we are creating new data analytics software for Big
Data applications. We measure and validate our software on real world
problems like cancer genomics, traffic prediction and environmental
monitoring. We have accelerated our research by using AWS to reconfigure
the computational resources we need to fit the problem we’re trying to
solve at scale, rather than having to limit our research to our fit on
our existing IT resources.”

About Amazon Web Services

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key
infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now
widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud
computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and
turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no
longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or
months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's
expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business
needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon
Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost
infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands
of enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190
countries around the world. AWS offers over 28 different services,
including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS). AWS services are available to customers from data center
locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan and Singapore.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web
Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. Kindle Paperwhite is the most-advanced e-reader ever
constructed with 62% more pixels and 25% increased contrast, a patented
built-in front light for reading in all lighting conditions, extra-long
battery life, and a thin and light design. The new latest generation
Kindle, the lightest and smallest Kindle, now features new, improved
fonts and faster page turns. Kindle Fire HD features a stunning custom
high-definition display, exclusive Dolby audio with dual stereo
speakers, high-end, laptop-grade Wi-Fi with dual-band support and
dual-antennas/MIMO for 40% faster throughput than other tablets, enough
storage for HD content, and the latest generation processor and graphics
engine—and it is available in two display sizes—7” and 8.9”. The all-new
Kindle Fire features a faster processor for 40% faster performance,
twice the memory, and longer battery life.

This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to
competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More
information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's
financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual
Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.